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As soon as any kind of assessment is formalised into a league table, it will be seized upon and interpreted in a misguided manner. Just look at what has happened with SATs. So it is with the 2005...
Following the news story 'Ofsted acts on childminders' (12 September), I am writing to clarify the position on the law relating to unregistered childminders, as the first two paragraphs of the story...
I read 'Nutrition off the menu at childminders' (News, 23 February) with interest and concern. I have been a registered childminder for more than seven years and I have always given the children in my...
Not only will the survivors of the Beslan massacre be traumatised, but children elsewhere may be distressed by the news. Andrea Clifford-Poston offers advice for understanding and responding to them
Plans for a cross-cutting review of the early years sector in England have been revealed in more detail by early years and childcare minister Catherine Ashton (News, 15 November). She told the Daycare...
Still on the topic of food, a new company called Kids Kitchen can supply a cookware range specifically designed for children to use. It includes hand-held tools, like whisks, rolling pins and pastry...
A group of private, voluntary and independent childcare organisations is behind plans to create an innovative specialist childcare centre in Aberdeen. Silverburn Lodge in Aber- deeen Science and...
As the Government's diverse goals for childcare are invited to come under the Sure Start banner, how many of them are expected to be achieved? Julian Grenier considers the issues facing the new unit...
Around 5,000 primary school-age children are to have the chance try out their musical skills in the presence of professional musicians, following the launch last week of the second phase of the Kids'...
Is it just me, or does Ofsted appear to be tangling itself up in a web of paperwork (News, 16 May)? I don't understand why it can't just register all childcarers in England and issue them with a...